[self-interest] Hosting Selflanguage.org on Self

[Tobias Pape]

Hey Russell,

On 04.02.2014, at 06:19, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I promised that I'd write up how the Self websites are being hosted.
> 
> We rely on Wordpress for our blog, and Nabble for our mailing list archive. Downloads are served up from a Amazon EC2 bucket and our source files for the default World and the VM are on GitHub.
> 
> However www.selflanguage.org, handbook.selflanguage.org and bibliography.selflanguage.org are all hosted ourselves. They are on a Fedora 19 VM at DigitalOcean. Each site is a Self world running a Self webserver, behind nginx. Each Self world is running in a SELinux sandbox which allows it (hopefully!) only enough permissions to run and be a server on a TCP port.


Thats darn cool!


> 
> Tieing all of this together is a first pass at Self-focused management software. Users can upload, run and connect to running Self worlds (command line only so far). Each world is given a port, if it runs a webserver on that port then it will be live at:
> 
> snapshotname.username.messaging.io
> 
> External domain names can then be aliased to these names. Eg, selflanguage.org is aliased to www.self.messaging.io (ie a snapshot called 'www' run by the 'self' user)
> 
> So in essence it is a very small Self cloud.
> 
> The management software at the moment is a few small python and bash scripts with < 1000 lines all up, and it doesn't scale beyond a single Linux VM.
> 
> You talk to it through a small python script called 'mio' which connects via XML-RPC over https. I've put a sample session below.
> 
> I plan on making a couple more fixes/enhancements then maybe opening it up to people on this mailing list to play with if anyone's interested. 
> 
> Russell
> 
> Here is an example session:
> 
>> mio list
> basic
>> mio copy basic test
>> mio list
> basic
> test
>> mio wake test
>> mio awake
> test
>> mio connect test
> Connecting... (^c to disconnect)
> for I386: LogVMMessages = true
> for I386: PrintScriptName = true
> for I386: Inline = true
> for I386: SICDeferUncommonBranches = false (not implemented)
> for I386: SICReplaceOnStack = false (not implemented)
> for I386: SaveOutgoingArgumentsOfPatchedFrames = true
> 
> Welcome to the Self system! (Version 4.4)
> 
> Copyright 1992-2011 AUTHORS.
> See the legal/LICENSE file for license information and legal/AUTHORS for authors.
> 
> Type _Credits for full credits.
> 
> VM version: 4.1.13
> 
> "Self 35" 3 + 4
> 7
> "Self 36" ^C
> Disconnected
>> mio tell test save
>> mio sleep test
>> mio awake
>> mio list
> basic
> test
>> mio delete test
>> mio list
> basic
> 
> 
> 


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